RFID in Libraries Guide

A technology that was originally developed for the military during World War II, ... , automotives, fast food, travel industry, and so on, is RFID or Radio Frequency Identification. RFID ... machines in identifying objects. It consists of a transponder or a tag which has an embedded [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 16:59:29

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UTSA CAMLS Holds Radio Frequency Identification Workshop

The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS) ... or transponders. RFID tags are objects that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal ... Association and held a one-day Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop. RFID is an automatic [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 19:03:36

New RFID Chips Could Pose Threat To Data Protection

(Crealis) -- A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management suggests that Big ... regarding data protection are not addressed in the design of new RFID applications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything from groceries and clothing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 17:27:11

Modern technology of RFID

Yesterday I have written an article related to online learning. Now I would like to write similar posting regarding online learning. Today I will talk about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). According to Wikipedia definitions RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 13:42:16

Study Tackles Labeling Errors

With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID), to track ... . An RFID tag can be applied to or incorporated into an object so that it can be identified by using [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 14:15:44

How Do Radio Tagged Cards Work?

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have three components: a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna; a reader and a computer database. The RFID tags themselves can be as small as half a millimeter square, the size of a tiny seed. Some are thin enough to be embedded in paper. Most tags today [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 15:54:58

RFID Privacy and You

RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) is a tiny wireless technology which has the potential to radically transform the commerce world ... with regard to individual privacy and corporate espionage. While barcode-type RFID tags ... with regard to RFID are important not only in the theoretical sphere, but increasingly such discussions [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 04:20:47

RFID Applications

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification is a technology, which includes wireless data capture and transaction processing. Proximity (short range) and Vicinity (long range) are two major application areas where RFID technology is used. Track ... value RFID solutions assisting companys track assets, people and documents. AgileSense provides robust [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 20:15:04

Multi-Detection Wireless Sensors from GE

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company has come up with a battery-free, ... and pollution prevention. GE’s unique RFID sensors are built on traditional RFID ... ... multi-detection radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensing platform that could enable a wide [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 02:47:16

40% Productivity Gain for GEL-AL of Turkey

June 3, 2008, Morgan Hill, California – Alien Technology, a leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ... totes travel throughout the various production stations. STS, a leading RFID systems integrator in Turkey, equipped each tote with an Alien® high-performance UHF/EPC compliant M-tag (inlay), which [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 19:48:08

RFID Beer Cooler Lockdown

The Revision 3 show Systm has been on and off since it was introduced many years ago ... Equipment Parallax RFID Equipment "RFID, or Radio Frequency ID, is everywhere: key cards ... . This episode talks about installing a RFID lock in your bar fridge, the locking mechanism [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 11:02:37

RFID Beer Cooler Lockdown

The Revision 3 show Systm has been on and off since it was introduced many years ago ... Equipment Parallax RFID Equipment "RFID, or Radio Frequency ID, is everywhere: key cards ... . This episode talks about installing a RFID lock in your bar fridge, the locking mechanism [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 11:02:37

RFID 'Smart Cards' in a surveillance society

"If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. "RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed to or implanted within physical objects, including human beings. The RFID chip itself contains [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 03:36:13

Printed Circuit Board Tracking with RFID

Omnitrol Networks and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) ... integration appliance, Gen 2 RFID readers and Texas Instruments' RFID Gen 2 UHF chips. The off-the-shelf ... -floor management. The manufacturing pedigree information is automatically programmed into the RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 11:49:28

USDOJ Clears RFID Patent Licensing Group

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 21, ... information stored in an integrated circuit (or chip) on a label. Read the Response to RFID ... patents needed to comply with standards for ultra high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 21:57:00

RFID, Privacy and the Surveillance Society

If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed ... and civil liberties: * Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:40:25

RFID for Safer CT Contrast Agent Delivery

Covidien Imaging, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt, is releasing a new RFID (radio frequency identification) ... of an RFID tracker chip within the injection syringe, and a communication system that writes dosing information into the chip during fill-ups. From the press release: The RFID-enabled system creates [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 21:34:29

RF One of Today’s Top Ten Design Skills

So, you want to be an electronics engineer, do you? Well, according to John Edwards ( ... , coupled with Bluetooth, radio-frequency identification (RFID), and other radio-enabled technologies ... of RF circuit design, particularly in cellular technologies, such as GSM and CDMA, and wireless systems [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 00:51:14

Don’t scan RFIDs in the hospital!

Warning! Hospitals have tested radio-frequency ID devices in a scanner and found that too many of them interfere with hospital equipment up to 6 metres away. The Corpus Callosum reports: Radio Frequency IDentification tags (RFIDs) are little devices that communicate with other devices, sending an identification signal. You’ve probably seen [more...]

Date: 2008-07-05 16:00:15

RFID Sniffer: Sniffs out tagged objects

I thought only my dog Brownie had great sniffing power but here is RFID Sniffer which doesn't sniff bones ... : Shaw selects ODIN technologies to design and install a radio frequency identification (RFID ... can detect 13.56 MHz RFID tags deployed generally in case of bank cards, loyalty cards etc. The kit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 03:57:34

Real Time Location Systems

Posted by: Paul DeBeasi Introduction Real-time location systems (RTLS) have been around for years ... of technology as described below: §  RFID: Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems consist of low-cost electronic tags that can be interrogated by electronic readers. In most RFID environments [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:37:02

The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society

If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “passive” tag doesn’t contain a battery and its “read” range is variable, from less than an inch to twenty or thirty feet. An “active” tag on the other [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 17:12:15

Weekly Newswire October 9th, 2008

Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Radio-Frequency Tags Cut Specimen Bottle Errors U.S ... , is proposing that busy labs add radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track and ... Compliance Remains Top Reason , But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt ... SDA Asia Magazine Consumer goods [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 20:41:06

RFID Technology

RFID technology is used all around us in many different business ... stems with detailed explanations. In addition, the course covers RFID middleware, standards, security & ... . RFID stands for Radio-frequency identification which is an automatic method that uses radio [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 20:18:00

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02Jan09 goin’ even more green By tjwsmum Categories: Family, Frugal/Freebies and Personal I am SUCH  a nerd ... me with a “large 95 gallon wheeled recycling cart equipped with an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag ... !   Like what, you might ask?  Well, corrugated cardboard, chip board from boxes such as cereal, pop, shoe [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 00:58:47

Charge it to My Mobile Phone

With Christmas just around the corner chances are we’re all going to be dashing around the shops trying our best to remember which album Dad’s been ... of multiple cards. Well with recent developments in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) soon we may be able to make payments using our mobile phones. These RFID enabled chips can be embedded [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 16:16:04

New hot stock options

Security systems provider companies witnessed a sudden action in terms of both orders/enquiries as well as stock changes in the last 3 days ... and internationally. It also offers Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) solutions, smart cards ... , library management, application tracking, vehicle tracking, warehouse management, work-in-progress [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 03:15:56

RFID is Bullshit!

Today’s article will go into details of the booming RFID (also known as Radio Frequency Identification) industry. I will cover the hysteria that is RFID, why people love it, how it is used and explain why ... to being used in real-world environments, or it is planned to be used by 2010 / 2011. You can see RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 07:05:51

Ambient intelligence

The Internet of Things :: Institute of Network Cultures: "Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their development ... network of RFID (.pdf). ... . A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 09:14:53

Artigo na Scientific American contra o RFID - Mythbusters impedidos de emitir programa sobre a insegurança do RFID

Katherine Albrecht, co-autora de “Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID“ escreveu um artigo na ... RFID nos carros portugueses. Mythbusters RFID spychips.com - FAQQ. What is RFID?A. Radio Frequency ... , backpack, or wallet. Many of the world’s largest manufacturing companies would like to replace the bar [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 11:47:28

Pervasive Open Infrastructure

Pervasive computing provides a means of broadening and deepening the reach of information technology (IT) in society ... for pervasive systems. They are collected together into a middleware platform, an intermediary between sensors ... the same information. Location may be sensed directly from RFID (radio frequency identification [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 18:01:00

US-Canada Border Data: Keeping Track of Keeping Track

As demonstrated by two recent developments, it is becoming harder to keep track of how much data is being generated and kept by whom when it comes ... to be fitted with a radio frequency identification device (RFID). Available optionally, they are intended to facilitate cross-border travel as an “acceptable alternative” to passports. However, several [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 15:38:24

Buyer Beware: Clothing You Buy May Inform On You

technology to shadow customers and record their every move Management strategists are touting a miraculous new computer system that promises to ... radio frequency identification, or RFID, a 21st-century digital marvel that involves a grain-sized ... , packaged, sold or shipped. A new believer in RFID technology is Italian clothier Benetton Group [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 13:10:26

REAL I.D.

Want to fight this National ID card? More informations at:Click to join How_To_Face_This_New_World_Orderhttp://groups.yahoo ... _opinion/guest128.htm * RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Chips) will be in all Real I.D. cards. Learn about RFID ... .com/group/How_To_Face_This_New_World_Order/joinREAL I.D. Act was passed into law and signed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 23:32:00

Refurbished POS equipment

Point of sale products are extremely popular with businesses worldwide and have been found to generate excellent ROI to these businesses, ... this need. POS equipment could be used by retail establishments in the form of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) scanners, Credit card authorization terminals and the like. POS equipment could prove [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 16:13:27

RFID's new utility in the datacenter

When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags. But today, RFID's biggest growth ... is now found in the RFID tagging of IT assets, especially those deemed high-value, says Michael [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 18:47:09

RFID Software Guide 101

RFID is the abbreviated form of Radio Frequency Identification ... manufacturing, into a dog collar etc. An RFID system can range up to 90 feet. Unlike barcode ... software. For instance lately technology company Intermec has created a new kind of intelligent RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 13:34:45

RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised

RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised By Samantha Gilmartin on Sep 11, 2008 in Hardware | comments(0) RFID technology is something that most people would claim to know nothing about. The technology ... of an RFID device right now. RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification, is a umbrella term [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 06:21:38

Arphid Watch: RFIDs in American passports inserted by foreign contractors

(((I'm no big fan of the Moonie Times, but these allegations sound distinctly weird. A passport factory in Thailand? Can such things be?))) ... of Bangkok, to be fitted with a wire Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, antenna. The blank ... and is transmitted through a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 18:15:47

Walgreens' DC Deploys RFID Without a Safety Net

Walgreens has fully integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) technology into its warehouse operations at the company's distribution facility in Anderson, S.C., according to RFID Update. Walgreens has been running the system since last year but only recently [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 15:00:00

Robotic chef that clean ups after you

By keeping track of all the contents of your kitchen and able to perform simple tasks with its impressive arms could this be the ... by the Technical University of Munich the unnamed machine utilises radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on dishes and utensils in its kitchen and avoids some of the pitfalls from previous [more...]

Date: 2008-07-16 09:03:04

High Tech RFID monitoring at Olympics

The Beijing Olympics are less than a month away and you can imagine how feverish the pitch is getting with last minute preparations for opening day ... Games, has issued 16 million RFID-enabled tickets, and has installed nearly 1,000 terminal devices ... experience for attendees, athletes and Beijing residents is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 11:42:55

GE develops battery-free RFID tags

GE Global Research has announced a new type of radio-frequency identification (RFID) ... smaller sensors at low cost, opening up a new range of potential applications from measuring ... Related Articles: Cell Phones to monitor the air and alert users to harmful chemicals and gases RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 06:01:29

RFID and Mobililty

File under: technologies you’ve heard about, but aren’t sure what the possibilities are. Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) ... key card with you all the time. If you commute through a toll booth you might have an RFID transponder ... s an RFID transponder that sends a one-way signal to an in-store security system, saying “hey, I’m here [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 22:45:52

VeriChip Closes Sale of Subsidiary - RFID

It appears having a “chip” implant is perhaps not as popular as one might have thought as least on the consumer medical records side.  Stanley, the tools folks, have purchased one portion of the business , Xmark which makes RFID ...   Xmark sells radio frequency identification technology to tag and track newborns, adults prone [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 21:56:53

Video: RFID Enabled Poker Table

So you’ve probably seen Poker events on television where there are cameras on the table to see what each person player is holding and at the same ... at your own home? Recently, an IT exec designed a table which utilizes Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology whereby a computer can track what cards are in each players hands, calculate the probability [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 18:00:45

RFID goes beyond inventory tracking

By: Grant Buckler - Network World Canada  Click here to view original article ... to affix radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to merchandise has been the poster boy for RFID for so long that anyone could be forgiven for thinking RFID is simply an inventory control technology – [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 20:54:11

Teen Drivers’ Cell Phones Jammed By Car Key

University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text ... stage business consulting and “seed funding.” It has licensed the Key2SafeDriving technology ... user’s cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 14:31:05

The Ticket Booths Of The Future (More Interesting Than It Sounds)

Ahhh the future, a time when we will fly to work, cloning will have wiped out hunger (ohhh controversial) ... mobile phone handsets in Japan are equipped with a RFID chip which allows them to send a unique code ... at all really. He’s an RFID (radio frequency identification) reading ticket dispenser made by NEC [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:36:28

The Next Generation of Digital Media in Retail

Customers are now able to engage with Digital Media in a way that was never possible with passive aisle mounted large screens running TV style content. Using the latest RFID technology shoppers can now interact at the Point of Decision ... . The solution comprises of LCD screens and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagged products [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:56:27

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